Community Specialist Palliative Care Nurse

To provide a specialist palliative care nursing service across Warwickshire. This includes providing specialist advice, education and training, leadership and change management in pursuit of excellent palliative care.

The post holder will be responsible for actively managing a clinical caseload of patients requiring specialist palliative care.

A key component of this post will be to work collaboratively with others and providing leadership, education, and training in specialist Palliative care to enable the wider workforce to improve their skills. The post holder will work in collaboration with the locality team to deliver the specialist palliative care element of the SWFTs Business plan.

There is requirement to work clinically across Warwickshire in order to meet the needs of the service

Supports the delivery of specialist palliative care across Warwickshire

Manages a specialist clinical case load (under the supervision of a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist).

Participates in the development and provision of specialist palliative care education and training within local trust and actively participates in these functions across Warwickshire

Participates in local audits, research projects, as requested by Lead Nurse

Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem solving.

Supports and manages change within a complex environment including across organisational boundaries in the pursuit of excellent palliative and end of life care.

Influences the development of others through education and training.

Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.

Assesses; analyses and interprets specialist needs of patients and carers in order to compare varied options for treatment, care/support.

Provides specialised palliative care advice to patients, carers, and all members of the multidisciplinary health care team concerning clinical investigations, disease and symptom management, and other issues within sphere of competence.

Uses specialist knowledge to refer patients and carers to other specialist/multidisciplinary services.

Advises patients, carers and health care professionals on services impacting on palliative care in both acute and primary care settings in addition to social.

Uses high level of interpersonal and communication skills for the purposes of facilitating ethical clinical decision making.

Negotiates with health and social care professionals involving contact with acute and primary care sector together with statutory and voluntary services to facilitate seamless access to and transition between palliative care

services for patients and carers

Uses alternative methods to communicate with patients where there are barriers present i.e. hearing disabilities, mental health, language and sensory impairment.

Ability to communicate extremely sensitive diagnostic information.

Uses counselling skills as a therapeutic tool.

Accurately records and manages personally generated patient information in compliance with data protection regulations.

Maintains data base of service information for the purposes of audit and service development.

Participates in assessment of patient eligibility for Continuing Health Care funding for nursing care from a palliative care perspective.

Manages office resources in order to fulfil job responsibilities.

Uses Microsoft Office to create documents, reports and educational materials.

Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality palliative care

Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management and proactive planning towards the end of life.

Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care and using the underpinning philosophy of co-creating care with people with specialist palliative care needs.

Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management and proactive planning towards the end of life.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Qualifications

Experience

Skills

Desirable: - Flexible attitude to working; - Exemplar written communication skills

Personal Qualities

Other

Essential: - Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations